Patients who fall ill with exacerbations of cardiovascular diseases on the weekend receive a much smaller amount of assistance and, as a result, are more likely to die from them than those who get sick on weekdays, according to the Internet publication for girls and women from 14 to 35 years old Pannochka. Net A study published in the New England Journal of Medicine showed the same data as a pre-published study on assistance to victims of stroke in Canada.

Both studies suggest that highly specialized "aggressive" help is available only on weekdays and is not available at the weekend.

According to the study's head, Dr. William Kostis of Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, New Jersey, one in a hundred patients who seek help for a heart attack will die because treatment at the weekend is significantly different from treatment on weekdays.

For a year the number of such cases can grow by several thousand.

To identify this pattern, the researchers analyzed about 200,000 stories of admission to hospitalization as a result of myocardial infarction.

As it turned out, the death rate among those who arrived on Saturday or Sunday was about 3.3%, while among those who entered on Wednesday, it was about 2.7%.

This difference was observed throughout the year, researchers say.

The reasons were that patients who entered the weekend were not able to receive invasive surgical methods of treatment and the time before making the decision to conduct them was significantly greater than in other cases.

When analyzing the total difference in mortality on different days of receipt, it turned out that the difference is even greater - about 9%.

The management of hospitals and individual services should organize equal access to all possible methods of diagnosis and treatment of diseases, this is the only way to avoid such a result - this is the conclusion of the researchers.

Medicinform. Net.

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